Guess so. Baynes, whose full-time job is playing center for the Detroit Pistons, arrived at the Rio Games with his head completely shaved on both sides with enough left on top for him to tie it into a bun. Besides that, Baynes has let his red beard grow long and full, giving him the look of an Amish Sumo Wrestler.

For a guy from Down Under, this is over the top.

"You got to ask my Mrs. on that one," he said, blaming his wife, Rachel, for the makeover. "It's just a little thing for her (Rachel) to do whatever she wants to me. It's all good."

Baynes scored 14 points and had eight rebounds as the Aussies opened pool play with an 87-66 win over France, a team expected to contend for a medal at these games.

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Maybe the new 'do helped.

"I enjoy it," he said, rubbing his temples. "It's a lot cooler. I got a little bit of aerodynamics with that."

A few of his teammates aren't sure what to make of the 'new' Baynes.

"Oh, Jesus," swingman Joe Ingles said, looking to see if the 6-foot-9 Baynes was nearby. "He's not close to me, is he? I mean he's a father now and he can do what he wants.

You can see the size of him so I'm not going to comment because he might beat the hell out of me. To each their own. I'm going bald so I can't say anything."

WASHINGTON (AP) — Relatives of Jesse Owens and America's 17 other black athletes from the 1936 Olympics were welcomed to the White House on Thursday by President Barack Obama for the acknowledgement they didn't receive along with their white counterparts 80 years ago.

Along with the relatives of the 1936 African-American Olympians, gloved-fist protesters Tommie Smith and John Carlos and members of the 2016 U.S. Olympic and Paralympic teams met the president and first lady Michelle Obama. Obama congratulated the Rio athletes, thanked Smith and Carlos for waking up Americans in 1968 and praised 1936 Olympians who made a statement in front of Adolf Hitler in Nazi Germany.

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